For the bookworms among the MBA set, winter break is a time to catch up on your reading. Here are 11 recommendations from business school deans, professors, students, and alumni:

The Stanford Graduate School of Business collected 2014 reading recommendations from alumni, including Bonobos Chief Executive Officer Andy Dunn and Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff. The full list, which includes classics like The Innovator’s Dilemma, is here. The most surprising entry: Status Anxiety, by Alain de Botton, which draws from St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Andrew Carnegie, and others to argue that human’s “insatiable quest for status … has less to do with material comfort than with love.”

Darden School of Business Dean Bob Bruner blogs about some of the books that “rocked my world” in 2013, including a healthy dose of history. Among the entries: American Colossus, on 19th century capitalism by H.W. Brands, and The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt’s attempt to locate the roots of the Renaissance.

Liz Fischer, who co-chairs the student book club at the Booth School of Business, says A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of life in 1920s Paris, was the most recommendable book the club read last year. “It’s transporting and such a world apart from MBA considerations,” she writes in an e-mail. Meanwhile, she just finished The Goldfinchby Donna Tartt over the holidays. “One of the best books I have ever read,” she writes. “It’s about 800 pages, so there’s no other time of year I could’ve read that continuously.”